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Stock :: Stock (n.) Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former

Sub :: Sub- () A prefix denoting that the ingredient (of a compound) signified by the term to which it is prefixed,is present in only a small proportion, or less than the normal amount; as, subsulphide, suboxide, etc. Prefixed to the name of a salt it is equivalent to basic; as, subacetate or basic acetate..

Attenuate :: Attenuate (v. t.) To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken..

Quadruplication :: Quadruplication (n.) The act of making fourfold; a taking four times the simple sum or amount.

Increment :: Increment (n.) The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement..

Lower :: Lower (a.) To reduce in value, amount, etc. ; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc..

Nauropometer :: Nauropometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the amount which a ship heels at sea.

Exceed :: Exceed (v. i.) To be more or greater; to be paramount.

Tollage :: Tollage (n.) Payment of toll; also, the amount or quantity paid as toll..

Hyperoxygenized :: Hyperoxygenized (a.) Combined with a relatively large amount of oxygen; -- said of higher oxides.

Shorten :: Shorten (a.) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc..

Syllogistic :: Syllogism (n.) The regular logical form of every argument, consisting of three propositions, of which the first two are called the premises, and the last, the conclusion. The conclusion necessarily follows from the premises; so that, if these are true, the conclusion must be true, and the argument amounts to demonstration.

Anthracometer :: Anthracometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the amount of carbonic acid in a mixture.

Cost :: Cost (v. t.) The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit..

Basanite :: Basanite (n.) Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal..

How :: How (adv.) To what degree or extent, number or amount; in what proportion; by what measure or quality..

Totality :: Totality (n.) The whole sum; the whole quantity or amount; the entirety; as, the totalityof human knowledge..

Megadyne :: Megadyne (n.) One of the larger measures of force, amounting to one million dynes..

Liquidate :: Liquidate (v. t.) In an extended sense: To ascertain the amount, or the several amounts, of , and apply assets toward the discharge of (an indebtedness)..

Water-white :: Water-white (n.) A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribaea) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst..

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